Hours Before His Execution, a Death Row Inmate Asked to See His 8-Year-Old Daughter One Last Time-Then She Whispered Something That Made the Warden Halt the Execution

tightly to her daughter’s hand, stood Nora Cole.

The entire room fell so completely silent that the faint hum of the overhead projector seemed deafening.

Jared Cole shot upright so fast his leather chair scraped harshly across the floor. His face drained from a healthy, sun bronzed color into a horrifying, ghostly white.

“N, Nora?” he stammered, one hand continue reading …